the clueless shoeless experiment

successful! below is a link to the video:

clueless shoeless experiment

17 april 2009 | on ISU's quad

week of april 16-19

here is a breakdown of the rest of my week: very exciting for me [serious, hardly any sarcarstic undertones]:

thurs: mtg @ 10 with advisor helping troubleshoot why my website for independent study will not show on my domain name, enviro health exam, extra credit presentation @7:30-9, preparation for tomorrow's blono improv event ("clueless shoeless"), get all of images figured out and put them on website, mail 4 letters, continue working on software design 2 final in second life (that i know nothing about, hooray).

fri: sit on quad from 10:45-4:30 documenting with video and photography "clueless shoeless" taking place, resolve any other issues with website which will be 1001 since there always are, begin editing for video of "clueless shoeless", hopefully able to get enough done to go out with friends since i have 2 1/2 weeks until i graduate and am lame this final semester of undergrad and have too many deadlines to ever make it out.

sat: springfest 09 in downtown bloomington (although doubt i will make it to this and it sucks since i am finally legal), homework homework and more homework which will probably consist of trying to figure out and piece together next idea for blono improv for the upcoming week and also trying to figure out how to do really anything useful in second life for sd2 final, driving to peoria to meet for lunch and catch up with former freshmen year roommate when i went to bradley my freshmen year, return from peoria, do more and more homework.

sun: church with boyfriend (because my soul sucks and i prefer piece of mind compared to total damnation), work noon to six and have a work meeting taking place sometime in there (only happiness here is that monday equals payday and that i am 5 days away from [hopefully] my final minimum wage college job), dinner with at least one glass of wine, bed early or fall asleep watching a movie/reading/studying.

then begins only one more full week of hell to meet final deadlines! and then a week (sorta) off with an enviro health final thrown in there, as well as a golf final, and then graduation may 9th. scary. oh, and somewhere in there is a hair appointment to chop some dead-ends i've have since mid-november.

very successful past week

for my integrated media two class, i've been working on a social disruption project titled "blono improv interventionists", which i have talked about on here before.  the title of this post is in reflection of that.

very excited that last week, we pulled off our very first (successful) event of public disruption!  it took place in the watterson dorm elevators on campus [if you are unfamiliar with illinois state's campus, that is the very tall dormitory that mostly freshmen and sophomores live in; i lived there my soph. year when i transferred to isu] and was called "iPOD iMPROV".  we had three participants (jen, mike, and tom) who walked onto a particularly full elevator, ipod earphones already in their ears, listening to tunes.  the plan was that would go into action after the first load of students got off and as soon as the elevator doors closed again, they would begin dancing to what they were listening to and proceed to get off one by one at the next available stop.  jen was the first to get off of the elevator while mike ended up being the last (he danced the longest, probably close to three minutes! i was so surprised and happy!), and once they walked off were supposed to act as nothing happened and continue their "daily" routine and walk away.  

as soon as the last dancer walked off the elevator, the one guy that was left on riding with me started laughing and was like, "ah, that was great! what's that for? a class or something?".  so i explained what i was doing it for, what class, the project's name, to check it out on facebook myspace blogspot twitter etc, and he seemed super interested! which is always a plus! and said he would check it out!  so slowly but surely things are beginning to matriculate through the campus; hopefully it will last awhile!

iPOD iMPROV

borrowed video camera

i was meandering through the cyber world when i came across "stumble upon" many months ago.  i think i started an account, although never followed through with it.  the other day, a friend sent a link through stumble upon, which i then proceeded to play and navigate throughout the site; didn't realize many months ago how interesting it could be!

i then went further and joined several other social networking site, such as shelfari (for reading) and mog (for music).  and i am searching for an interesting one for movies, as well.  it is interesting how vast the technological world is simply via the computer [ i know, wow what a super intelligent thought, way to dig deep with that gem ] but seriously! i never knew how many different kinds of social network groups they are out there! and just a few weeks ago i joined artbistro, a quirky little site that connects you to fellow artists -- it's amazing! i am a huge fan of all these sites!

and the only thing i have to say that has any relevance what-so-ever to the title of this post is that i borrowed the integrated media 2 vid cam to document my public project going on tomorrow, of a social disruption.  hopefully will have info up on here soon about that!